Which Racing Game Is Definitely Your Most Favourite??

[Małcin]

Wreckfest??
Live For Speed??
BeamNGDrive??

[Talon]

MotorStorm: Pacific Rift for the PS3. Really fun arcadey off-road racer set on a tropical island in the Pacific Ocean.

It's definitely a series I wish had a decent spiritual successor.

[🦊 Hermit]

I used to be madly into racing games growing up - played lots of different ones - and I was into a lot of motorsport series too. Then around 15 years ago I realised just how corrupt all the motorsport series were, how they aren't real competitions but people pull the strings behind the scenes to manufacture the results they want. With that I completely lost interest in the sport, and that in turn took away my love of racing games too.

Now there are only four driving games which I continue to play with any significant regularity. Two of those aren't racing games - Euro and American Truck Simulator. I mainly like those just because they're relaxing and I can explore the map and see the scenery.

Wreckfest is the third of those four games, and would probably count as my second favourite racing game. I'm still into it despite my disinterest for racing, simply because it's a laugh. The chaos of cars slamming into each other and cartwheeling down the road puts a grin on my face.

The fourth title, and the one which I would have to say is my favourite racing game of all time, would be FUEL by Asobo Studios. It's classed as a racing game, and I do sometimes go racing on it, but largely I use it for the same purpose as the truck sims. It has an absolutely enormous map - holds the world record for largest playable area in a console game - that can take over two hours to drive from one side to the other. And it is open, deserted wilderness, from rocky canyons to snowy mountains, dense forests to salt flats. I love to just pick a car, pick a direction, and drive, absorbed in the beauty of the scenery and the peace and solitude of the game's atmosphere. It's a really rare gem of a game, nothing quite like it.

[Purple44]

Ah a FUEL fan. :)

One Saturday, Aug 2011, a bunch of us ( 20+ at the start ) spent 6 hours making our way across the FUEL map. :)

http://www.lay-zmattress.com/flatout2/purple44/FUEL/Fuel-Icon-Map---numbers-secret-800.jpg

http://www.lay-zmattress.com/flatout2/purple44/FUEL/Final-8-Pinwheel.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXazZ3nKno&

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orifbP29Z8I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc8SNyhcnjQ

[Acierocolotl]

iRacing. It's nice just getting some clean racing on, and while it's really spendy, it scratches that racing itch quite nicely.

Wreckfest is #2. Sometimes it's fun getting my friends together and just crumpling some fenders.

[WissyMeisteri]

#1 1nsane
#2 Gran Turismo 2
#3 Forza Horizon

[the bat kite]

This one!

[Znicz]

#1 Ride2
#2 MotoGP20
#3 MotoGP17

[mr. z]

Dirt Rally. Spent perhaps 1000 hours on it and finally won everything on Masters level.

[Talon]

Originally posted by Acierocolotl:

iRacing. It's nice just getting some clean racing on, and while it's really spendy, it scratches that racing itch quite nicely.

Wreckfest is #2. Sometimes it's fun getting my friends together and just crumpling some fenders.

The thing that keeps me from saying Wreckfest is my favorite is it lacks many small details that make me like other racing or driving games, like MotorStorm and Carmageddon. That being animated springs, other parts like engines being animated, and the drivers actually steering the steering wheel.

Carmageddon: Max Damage went well beyond on animating their vehicles. If you flip over, you can legitimately see the vehicle's driveshaft spinning and all that other stuff. Engine fans spin and the engines shake. Things like that in addition to vehicle springs actually animating as you hit bumps and land jumps. Drivers also react to their vehicle getting hit or smashing into stuff.

MotorStorm is much the same and even has it where the drivers emote when you honk your vehicle's horn, even in large vehicles where you can't easily see them doing it. MotorStorm: Apocalypse also has drivers react to collisions and hard landings.

[Langolier]

I prefer Wreckfest MP over anything else I've played over the last 20 years. I play on semi-clean servers and when moderated appropriately, it is some of the best racing I've ever encountered. Looking forward to seeing what Wreckfest 2 brings but am not concerned if it doesn't meet expectations as that is how good Wreckfest is and I don't see that community ever disappearing given that anyone can host online play.

[Purple44]

Originally posted by Langolier:

I prefer Wreckfest MP over anything else I've played over the last 20 years. I play on semi-clean servers and when moderated appropriately, it is some of the best racing I've ever encountered. Looking forward to seeing what Wreckfest 2 brings but am not concerned if it doesn't meet expectations as that is how good Wreckfest is and I don't see that community ever disappearing given that anyone can host online play.

Unfortunately it getting harder for some players to host an in-game WF server. :(

Used be, you just had to worry about forwarding some ports, but now have this to stop you from having your host show in the Wreckfest server list:

dovi — Yesterday at 7:19 PM
To double check, it's your WAN interface that your ISP assigns to your router/address, and not the LAN IP of your router, correct?
[7:20 PM]
If you have CGNAT, you should have 3 IPs, sorta.

LAN IP of router = something like 192.168.1.1
WAN IP of router = some xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx address
The address whatismyipaddress.com thinks you have which would be like yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
[7:21 PM]
If you are behind CGNAT, there ARE ways to get around it, but none of the ways worth doing for gameserver stuff are free or necessarily easy for a novice to deploy.

Garlic Bread — Yesterday at 7:43 PM
It is CGNAT, might poke around it from here with a game hosting service, probably easier to rent a server than try and make it work on my computer
[7:43 PM]
appreciate the help

dovi — Yesterday at 8:06 PM
Yeah, 100% would be easier to pay someone like host havoc a couple coffees a month to host it for ya. My condolences for your situation, best of luck out there.
[8:07 PM]
It IS possible you may be able to request a dedicated IP from your ISP for a monthly fee. But they do CGNAT so they can put more customer behind fewer IPV4 addresses to save money and allocations. (edited)

[TJSlipperman]

Currently I'd say Wreckfest. Turbo Sliders Unlimited would be the second choice.

[MysticalPotato]

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

IThen around 15 years ago I realised just how corrupt all the motorsport series were, how they aren't real competitions but people pull the strings behind the scenes to manufacture the results they want.

You THOUGHT you realised. This is complete fabrication. Been enthusiastically following and living racing in many forms, and participated, for 40years.

There's a lot of politics, and money matters, but to think they aren't real competitions and results are manufactured, is complete and utter nonsense and totally false.

[SilverSurfer1009]

#1 Forza Motorsport
#2 Forza Horizon and Wreckfest
#3 F1 2023

[Vin Petrol]

Between wreckfest (with mods) and assetto corsa (with mods)
I cover all my offline motorsport needs.
From folk racing with soft body damage, to sim racing with arguably any cars on any track, with a realistic tyre model and still great graphics.

For online competition it's raceroom or Assetto corsa competitione.

I like beamng drive for messing about with its realistic physics, and forza horizon 5 for some free roam, but only casually.